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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.com!imci4!imci3!imci2!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!mail2news.alias.net!myriad!mylinuxbox!suck!netcom.com!stephenk From: stephenk@netcom.com (Stephen Knilans) Subject: Re: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium Message-ID: <stephenkDpCsvp.LBu@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <4joi3n$bvb@news.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE> <stephenkDp7nHo.369@netcom.com> <4jv7c9$m5t@park.uvsc.edu> Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 19:59:49 GMT Lines: 31 Sender: stephenk@netcom9.netcom.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.apps:14009 comp.os.linux.development.system:20502 comp.os.linux.x:28312 comp.os.linux.hardware:35172 comp.os.linux.setup:48594 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:408 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2938 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2706 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:16482 In article <4jv7c9$m5t@park.uvsc.edu> Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> writes: >Not that this little side-discussion has anything to do with the >subject line... > > >stephenk@netcom.com (Stephen Knilans) wrote: >] In article <4joi3n$bvb@news.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE> Thomas.Weihrich@Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE (Thomas Weihrich) writes: >] >You still don't get it ... >] > >] >Linux is by no means a commercially usable product. It has too many >] >flaws to be of good use for businesses let alone ISPs. >] >] Name ****ONE****! So far, I haven't heard ONE legitimate reason! BTW I have heard >] of at least THREE ISPs that use LINUX, and some BIG companies have decided to >] support LINUX! LINUX supports more, is more flexible, and faster in areas, etc... >] than SCO!!!!!!!!! I use SCO at work, and Linux at home! > >Running binaries under IBCS2 emulation instead of running them >native means no support from the software vendors when the >programs fail to run under Linux. MOST are NATIVE aps! >That's why Matorx doesn't think Linux (or BSD) is enough of a >market to care to change their policy (a policy which does not, >as they purported in David's quotation of them, protect their IP). This is NOT about Linux! >